Civics High School Social Justice 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2021
Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., They liken it to a laboratory in science class, where students learn civics by doing civics.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2024
Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”
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Political Science Now
OCTOBER 1, 2024
This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2024
Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2018
. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. The modern American university needs once again to be at the center of civic, intellectual and professional life.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Perhaps schools are simply more effective at advancing private purposes and we’re assigning them a role that they are ill-suited to play. If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education. The results have not rewarded our faith.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. We could play Fantasy Geography.
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